This year’s bicentennial events include a 400-mile bike ride, history tours and canal concerts along one of North America’s ...

1825. "The Erie Canal played a major part in commerce in the history of the United States," reports the Library of Congress. "Its creation helped to make New York City the chief port in the United ...

Ric Burns brother of the famed documentarian Ken Burns presents an exhaustive history of New York City from the settling of the area by the Dutch to the attack by terrorists nearly 400 years later ...

15, 1825, a burst of cannon fire shook the ramshackle ... Grand Island that was intended to be the first autonomous Jewish city-state in almost 1,800 years. Ararat's 400-pound cornerstone ...

New York City is not only the financial capital of America ... in large part thanks to the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825. New York became the leader in American finance after the Second ...

Waves of Irish and German immigrants flood into the city between 1825 and 1865 only to find that New York is not so welcoming to immigrants. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux shape the city ...